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Over the past twenty years, entrepreneurs have created and captured enormous value by launching new marketplaces. Examples include Airbnb, Alibaba, eBay, Google, Rakuten, and Uber, among many. Making Markets (M²), an MBA elective jointly developed with Prof. Scott... View Details

Article

Direct vs. Indirect Remedies for Externalities

By: Jerry R. Green and Eytan Sheshinski

July 2010
Background Note

Remedies for Patent Infringement under U.S. Law

By: Lena G. Goldberg and Chad Carr

Under the U.S. Patent Act, a patent owner has a statutory right to exclude others from engaging in the unauthorized production, use, sale, or importation of a patented invention. This note examines how that right is enforced and what remedies a patent owner has when... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Patents; Law Enforcement; Rights; United States

August 2007
Article

Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India

By: A. Banerjee, Shawn A. Cole, E. Duflo and L. Linden

This paper presents the results of two randomized experiments conducted in schools in urban India. A remedial education program hired young women to teach students lagging behind in basic literacy and numeracy skills. It increased average test scores of all children in... View Details

Keywords: Literacy; Teaching; Performance Improvement; Competency and Skills; India

01 May 2010
News

A Remedy for Health Care—Innovation

December 2008
Article

Remedying Hyperopia: The Effects of Self-Control Regret on Consumer Behavior

By: Anat Keinan and Ran Kivetz

Keywords: Customers; Behavior; Perspective

03 Mar 2011
News

Could Japanese hospital doctors offer a remedy to student place dilemma?

12 May 2014
News

New HBS Startup is the Remedy to All Your Airline Headaches

Keywords: Air Transportation; Transportation

April 1987
Background Note

Decline of United States Competitiveness in the World Economy: Some Causes and Remedies

By: George C. Lodge

2016
Working Paper

Android and Competition Law: Exploring and Assessing Google's Practices in Mobile

By: Benjamin Edelman and Damien Geradin

Since its launch in 2007, Android has become the dominant mobile device operating system worldwide. In light of this commercial success and certain disputed business practices, Android has come under substantial attention from competition authorities. We present key... View Details

Keywords: Android; Antitrust; Competition Policy; Exclusion; Mobile Communication Devices; Remedies; Tying; Two-Sided Platforms; Lawfulness; Internet; Mobile Technology; Wireless Technology; Information Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry

SSRN

2016
Article

Android and Competition Law: Exploring and Assessing Google's Practices in Mobile

By: Benjamin Edelman and Damien Geradin

Since its launch in 2007, Android has become the dominant mobile device operating system worldwide. In light of this commercial success and certain disputed business practices, Android has come under substantial attention from competition authorities. We present key... View Details

Keywords: Android; Antitrust; Competition Policy; Exclusion; Mobile Communication Devices; Remedies; Tying; Technology Platform; Competition; Monopoly; Policy; Mobile Technology; Telecommunications Industry

July 2018 (Revised August 2018)
Case

Rocky Mountain Condiments: Close Encounters with the Legal System for the First Time

By: Lena G. Goldberg

The founder of a Colorado start-up focused on developing a line of condiments confronts a host of legal issues that threaten the viability of her young enterprise. She is suing a co-packer for, among other things, breach of contract, theft of recipes and trade secrets,... View Details

Keywords: Law And Regulation; Start-ups; Founders' Agreements; Cross-Border Jurisdiction; Torts; Consumer Protection; Non-disclosure Agreements; Intellectual Property Protection; Fraud; Legal Remedies; Law; Lawsuits and Litigation; Laws and Statutes; Business Startups; Contracts; Intellectual Property; Food and Beverage Industry

Educators

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2013
Other Unpublished Work

Comments on Commitments in AT.39740 — Google

By: Benjamin Edelman

I evaluate the remedies in Google's proposed Commitments, and I propose additional remedies to more fully address the Commission's concerns. View Details

Keywords: Competition; Regulation; Google; Bias; Deterrence; Law; Internet; Search Technology; Technology Networks; European Union

03 Dec 2014
What Do You Think?

Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

Summing Up Can the Brilliance of the "Jerk" Be Tapped? The best business problem cases are those that divide a class into groups making two or more persuasive arguments. The questions of whether or not and how to make investments in "brilliant... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Jul 2018
News

Henry Kissinger's Lessons for Business Negotiators

03 Jan 2018
What Do You Think?

In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?

SUMMING UP Would More Women in Leadership Help Mitigate #MeToo Concerns? If a good case study is one that splits a class down the middle on an important issue while surfacing creative responses, this month's column on how best to encourage corporate compliance... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

November–December 2021
Article

Successfully Implementing TDABC in Health-Care Provider Organizations

By: Susanna Gallani and Gregory Sabin

This article describes some of the common obstacles that challenge the success of TDABC implementation in health-care provider organizations and suggests potential remedies and preventive measures. View Details

Keywords: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Implementation; Health Care and Treatment; Activity Based Costing and Management